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Sophisticated Wireless Interference Analysis: A Case Study for Spectrum Sharing PolicyDirk GrunwaldUniversity of Colorado at Boulder Rob AlderferCableLabs Kenneth R. BakerUniversity of Colorado at Boulder - Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program March 19, 2014 2014 TPRC Conference Paper Abstract: Access to sufficient wireless spectrum is important for sustaining the growth of wireless broadband and enabling next-generation wireless technology. However, freeing additional spectrum for wireless broadband is often a difficult and contentious process. As policymakers look to new mechanisms of sharing spectrum to meet growing wireless needs, the specific terms of sharing are central to the utility of the wireless resource. For this reason, nuanced understanding of interference risks - which drive spectrum sharing policies - is needed to maximize the productive use of the spectrum. Commonly proffered interference analyses are static and simplified, while the real world of wireless is dynamic and ever changing. Improving the technical information on which policymakers rely is therefore critical to the success of spectrum sharing as a policy strategy. In this paper, we demonstrate how sophisticated simulation of wireless coexistence can yield important insights, in contrast to simplified models normally offered by advocates. We focus on a portion of the 5 GHz Wi-Fi band, which is crucial for enabling capacity and throughput, and is the global home to the next-generation mass market Wi-Fi standard known as 802.11ac. In this analytic context, outdated FCC rules designed to protect mobile satellite service (MSS) from harmful interference rendered Wi-Fi access to 100 megahertz of the band, known as UNII-1, unsuitable for wide-scale deployment. Today, a single MSS company occupies this entire 100 megahertz, and a far lower level of MSS utilization exists than assumed would be the case when the FCC established rules many years ago. Our paper develops a sophisticated coexistence simulation, which shows that satellite phone users are extremely unlikely to experience any service diminution (harmful interference) as a result of liberalized Wi-Fi access to UNII-1. This analysis was submitted to the FCC in January 2014, and served as the primary basis for action to expand Wi-Fi access to UNII-1 in March of that year. Number of Pages in PDF File: 28 Keywords: spectrum, wireless, FCC, TPRC, interference, Wi-Fi, Globalstar, 5 GHz Date posted: March 21, 2014 ; Last revised: August 16, 2014Suggested CitationContact Information
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Topic: Kongregate Multiplayer Games / STOP CURSING SO MUCH
Wow, i never knew how many people agree with me..! Thanks for "cursing" out the cursers. XD
Topic: Off-topic / Dogs don't have feelings right?
Dogs DO have feelings. Everything that is living (except plants but i love those anyway) has feelings. Believe it or not even fish have feelings.
I'm really angry right now. No matter how many people I ignore, more potty mouthes come. _
Topic: Everybody Edits / Trolls
Saying you hate trolls is like taping a target on your forehead for them.
Topic: Everybody Edits / Post ideas here
We need to be able to kick players out of a room if your the host. Lets say you click someone's name, and a box appears, and it could say: Ignore, (For people who have chat) Kick, and View profile. Reply if you think this is an awesome idea!
Topic: Everybody Edits / Ideas
I suggest blocks with words on them so that you dont have to work hard just to make a single word. and so that its not so huge
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And you can't stop us builders. Make a mess with blocks, we clean it up. Erase our art, we build it again. No matter what you do, we wont get so mad we leave the room.
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I suggest the host of the world should be able to kick people out, so that there wont be any trolls.
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Whenever i type in the code which was the title of the world, it doesnt work! (this happend to me on firefox)
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yusmeiro Petit has been nearly perfect since the Giants brought him to San Francisco in late August. After losing his first game, Petit still feels he learned something.
Petit lasted a season-low 3 2-3 innings in the Giants' 9-3 loss to the San Diego Padres on Saturday, giving up five runs and seven hits.
"I felt good all the way around," Petit said. "This is a learning experience for me because when I get into big trouble I have to find a way to get out of it."
Petit (4-1) pitched well enough in his first six starts to earn a chance at a spot in the rotation come spring training. He was one batter away from a perfect game on Sept. 6 against Arizona in his first career shutout. He also pitched into the sixth inning in his previous starts.
"I think I achieved a lot of things this year," Petit said. "This was not a good outing, but I think I did enough to make them think about me for next year."
Petit retired eight straight hitters before Chase Headley doubled in the fourth.
"I thought he threw the ball well," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "That long inning, and that long at-bat in particular, took a lot out of him."
Petit said Tommy Medica's 14-pitch at bat, with two outs in the fourth, that resulted in an RBI single was a factor in his performance.
"He was able to time all my pitches," Petit said. "I made so many pitches and threw everything to him. Give him credit, he drained me mentally."
Bochy said leading into the fourth Petit was locating his pitches.
"You're going to see some rough moments," Bochy said. "Hopefully they will get better and smoother. He threw some pretty good strikes."
Hunter Pence, who reached a tentative agreement on a $90 million, five-year contract before the game, hit a two-run homer for the Giants, who had their three-game losing streak end.
Petit gave up a two-run homer to Jesus Guzman, who followed Medica in the fourth.
"Petit was throwing him everything, all his pitches, all his locations and velocities," Padres manager Bud Black said. "We've had some good innings this year and that is one of the best. I thought Guzzie's home run would be a long fly ball but it just kept going."
Eric Stults (11-13) pitched seven effective innings to win his third straight start after going 0-6 in his previous 10 starts. He also helped himself with an RBI single during a four-run fourth.
Stults allowed three runs on seven hits. He did not walk a batter and struck out three.
Luke Gregerson pitched the eighth and Nick Vincent worked the ninth. The Padres are a game ahead of the Giants in third place in the NL West.
"It would be a big thing if we could win tomorrow and finish tied for third," Bochy said. "We keep saying we want to win every game we play."
After Chris Denorfia led off the game with his career-best 10th home run, Angel Pagan doubled to open the bottom of the first and scored when Sandoval doubled with two outs.
Pence hit his 27th homer in the third to put the Giants ahead 3-1. His homer total is the highest for the Giants since Barry Bonds hit 28 in 2007.
Petit retired the first two batters in the fourth and then gave up six consecutive hits, including the long at-bat by Medica, before being replaced by George Kontos.
NOTES: Giants INF Brandon Belt will be working on his versatility during the offseason according to manager Bruce Bochy. ... RHP Guillermo Moscoso (2-2, 4.21) will start Sunday's season finale for the Giants. It's his first start since Aug. 4. ... Giants OF Juan Perez recorded his eighth outfield assist, tied for second-most among rookies in the NL. ... Sandoval is a career .545 (12 for 22) hitter against Stults.
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Crescent Machine Co.
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Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:
Band Saw
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Submitted By:
Phil Kezele
Machine Specifications
32" Direct Drive Band-Saw
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I acquired this machine here locally in Seattle. Much to my surprise it was being offered by a construction worker who had acquired it some 10 years earlier. He had it in his garage that was hidden next to his huge stash of NW hardwoods. The saw was originally used in a furniture factory in downtown Seattle. It came with about a dozen blades ranging in size from 3.8" to 1 1/4", most never used. That's all we know about it. Wouldn't it be interesting to find out how it made its way from Ohio? Accompanied with me to survey the saw was fellow OWWM'r John Orvis, I wish to thank him for all the tips and a great day spent together.
My plans are to keep it historically accurate as possible; however, this is my primary woodworking band saw and will be put to great use in my woodworking craft. I will restore this machine in phases--it will begin with a complete motor rebuild on the direct drive motor (now complete), and a re-pour of the upper wheel arm babbitt bearings. Both rubber tires are in the process of being replaced with new ones from Carter Products. I will install some temporary blade guards I made out of 2" angle aluminum as a preventative safety measure. Future plans are to build a set of wheel guards with associated iron hardware--either out of MDF or similar material; painted with an original design from Crescent of old, then sand blast and repaint the whole saw using the same dark navy/black color, with highlights of gold on the embossed cast iron; hopefully that will pickup the brass in my engine grease oilers and the brass drip oilers I plan on adding to keep the babbitts well lubricated. I intend to restore the only decal on the machine with Photoshop.
This is the only large size direct drive Crescent band-saws I've seen in real pictures on the internet. This saw was usually driven by belts. Most owners of this saw have adapted newer engine technology and pulleys to replace the wide band pulleys. According to Crescent it weighs 900 lbs and uses a 16foot 4inch length blade! It comes furnished with a number 1 Wright guide on the guide bar, a size 0 Wright guide is found below the massive 150 pound main table. The saw rotates at 400-450 rpm. If I counted correctly, I believe we have only 4 or 5 OWWM members with this same size/model of Crescent band-saws.
This will be by far my toughest restoration attempted. I appreciate all the help on this one. I will update the photos as the restoration proceeds.
Update 11-30-03:
I uploaded a new image of the saw that is now in working order. This will be about as far as I can go till the spring time which will allow me to sand blast and repaint the machine. Completed so far:
1. Old tires completely removed and rims prepped to accept new rubber. Glued and mounted new rubber tires. Aligned wheels but did not crown the tires. The bands seem to track extremely well as is. I am undecided if I will crown them or not until I determine there is an issue. This was the subject of much discussion on the message board when I first found this saw.
2. Motor is completly rebuilt, new permanent sealed bearings replaced the older brass grease cup bearings. Motor is an Imperial 2HP with the same "1 3/8" diameter axel as the upper. Estimated weight is 175lbs. It took two high school kids to wrestle it out of the back of my Suburban and back on the motor shelve. This saw scared me the first time I saw those 32 inch wheels moving at 550 RPM!
3. Installed a Allen-Bradley Size 0 motor starter, with slightly oversized overloads.
4. Upper axel was completely replaced with new "1 3/8" diameter axel. Some minor machining required to set a new keyhole for set screw which keeps wheel attached.
5. Existing Babbitt bearings were removed and completely re-poured. It took two pours to get it right but they turned out just fine in the end. This is indeed a lost art.
6. Ordered/replaced new lower Wright Guide #0; old one was missing completely.
7. Using 2 X 2 aluminum "L" stock, I built saw guards for safety.
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Little Pink Book of Elegance
One Dozen Long Stemmed Pink Roses
A page dedicated to beauty, the color pink and health. Some of the items also support research projects...
Cookbook for Women
Pink Jewelry Box
KitchenAid Pink Mixer
Masada Spa Sampler Pack, Lily & Jasmine
Martha Stewart's Summer Favorites
Sony Cybershot - Pink
Velvet Rose Hand Cream
The Big Book of Girl Stuff
Ascot Pink Backpack
Hello Kitty Clipboard Necklace
I remember the exact moment I noticed Hello Kitty items in a store "believe it or not" in Africa. There I was in a toy store looking for a way to spend some money I'd been given as a gift and I had my eye on a doll that could really eat and drink. It was one of those moments when your eyes light up and you say "oh, I want all of those." There I was standing in front of the Hello Kitty items dreaming of how I could afford to buy these miniature completely fascinating items on my limited budget. You know how it is with an allowance when you are a kid. So, finally I'm able to buy some of the items I always wanted and the necklace clipboard seemed very useful and cute. It also has a few stickers so you can make the notes like "post it" notes by attaching the sheets of paper to any surface with the cute stickers. I leave my husband notes on the mirror and also find this useful when I'm in the mood to write down notes about some music I just heard and want to review or my mind is flying. The Hello Kitty Pen is also fun to keep with the clipboard so you always have a pen and paper around. Now you can even buy Hello Kitty clothes and they have TVs, refrigerators and even a little sandwhich maker. No, I was not looking at every Hello Kitty item on Amazon...me? No way. :) ~The Rebecca Review
Hello Kitty Pen
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Think Pink by Lush - Gift Set of Bath Products
Products: Creamy Candy Bath, Sex Bomb, MMM (Melting Marshmallow Moments), Rock Star Soap, Helping Hands, Fair Trade Foot Lotion, I Should Coco Soap, Ring of Roses, Flosty Gritter, Pop In The Bath, The Comforter, Think Pink
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The Soft Touch Body Butter. ~The Rebecca Review
The Land of I Can
A Garden of Positive Thinking!
The Land of I can is a brilliantly conceived book of eternal wisdom. It is a mirror for our own souls that helps us see the invisible choices we must make. Suddenly, as we gaze into the meanings on each page, the answers appear.
Susan Gilbert's eternally motivating words will guide you to: "The Land of I Can." This is a land where our choices make our dreams a reality.
This journey will take you through the lands of Apathy, Fear, Sorrow, and Ashes. Susan has walked though these lands on her own life's journey, and the book speaks from the hard-won experience. Which is how she knows that you can walk through the lands instead of living in them.
Your travel to the Land of I Can is a self-empowering journey. When you take hold of this book in your hand, you will take hold of our life in a new way; you will see where you are. As you read the book, you follow the path of belief and affirmation - one step at a time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "Earth laughs in flowers." How appropriate for the pages to be filled with lilies which symbolize innocence, purity and new life. When we say "I Can," we can bring the joy of childhood back into our lives. So, plant the words from this book in your heart. Let the words take root in your soul. Soon you will have a garden of "I Can" lilies blooming and the fragrance of success will fill your life!
Norman Vincent Peale once said: "Our happiness depends upon the habit of mind we cultivate." So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will blossom.
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We've built the world's most comprehensive career test. Our questionnaire measures over 180 traits to match you against 500+ careers. Our mission is to help you find your calling in life.
Take the career testReal estate agents are knowledgeable about their local laws on the buying and selling of property. The geographical area that an agent works in, is their area of expertise. They know trends within the local property market as well as what competitive prices are for the various properties their clients want to buy or sell.
A real estate agent acts as the middleman, or broker, between two parties seeking to buy or sell property. Real estate agents have the skill and expertise to either market the property and sell for the best possible price and conditions, or to look for property that suits a client's needs and buy it at the best price possible with the most favourable terms.
Negotiation is a key part of the real estate agent's work, as they act as the intermediary between buyer and seller and will often negotiate on their client's behalf. Real estate agents will charge a percentage of the final sale price as their fee.
A real estate agent's workplace is as varied as the property they buy and sell and the clients they deal with. While some time is spent in an office environment, a lot of the real estate agent's working life involves travel and irregular hours. The agent will need to visit properties as well as attend meetings with prospective and current clients. This may take place during the day, in the evenings as well as weekends to meet client needs.
The real estate agent also attends industry conferences and seminars to stay up to date with current trends as well as keep up their contacts and professional network. They must also keep up with all the available properties in the area, therefore going to agent open houses every week is essential in order to keep as current as possible.
Real estate can be a great career if you are a hard-working, self-motivated, and honest professional. These attributes generally come from within you. You either are these things or you are not. There are, however, many skills that you can learn and develop to ensure your clients stay with you for life, and refer other clients to you as well.
Working in real estate is a multifaceted career. One part industry expert, one part marketer, one part sales person, one part negotiator, one part tech support and lots of hard work.
Being a Realtor has helped me tremendously in my own investing strategy. I have purchased 8 long-term rental properties and I am making at least 20% cash on cash returns on all of them.
If you're thinking of becoming a real estate agent, it's definitely worth it to look into every aspect of the job before you make the decision.
Becoming a real estate agent can be a rewarding career. Arm yourself with the knowledge about what it takes to break into this field and what the job conditions are.
If you have ever considered investing the time and money necessary to become a licensed real estate agent, here are some of the most important things you should consider when making your decision.
There are many different players in the residential real estate industry—property managers, publishers, builders, banks, and government agencies, to say nothing of buyers, sellers, and renters. Nevertheless, the real movers and shakers are the intermediaries, the people constantly moving between and communicating with these players: agents and brokers.


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Mark Walhberg has put his 9,000 sq. foot Beverly Hills home on the market for $13 million. The main house has 7 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and features a basketball court, a pool, a gym and a putting green. The actor is reportedly building a larger estate on six acres for he and his growing brood. Wahlberg and wife Rhea Durham have four children.


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Gender | Female |
Race | Banshees (Undead) |
Level | 70 - 71 Elite |
Health | 32,166 - 46,000 |
Mana | 16,155 |
Reaction | Alliance Horde |
Location | Karazhan |
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[show]Attacks and abilitiesEdit
- Transform: Reveals her true form at 50% health, removes all debuffs.
- Impending Betrayal: A debuff which does 3000 shadow damage after 10 seconds.
- Shadow Bolt: As the warlock ability, uses only when at range.
- Searing Pain: Same as the warlock ability, uses in melee occasionally
These mobs can be shackled, but are immune to Curse of Tongues. Generally, kill them first during the pulls which contain them.
Reputation: Provides 15 reputation with The Violet Eye.
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Research that reduces greenhouse gases is subject of September
Stanford, California—August 18, 2006—The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) will hold an energy research symposium Sept. 18-20 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center. Researchers from Stanford and around the world will discuss developments that may spur energy technologies with significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The symposium is free and open to the Stanford community and other researchers and energy professionals, but registration is required by Sept. 8. For registration and a schedule of events, go to http://gcep.stanford.edu/symposium. "In the past three years, GCEP has built up a diverse portfolio of research efforts," said GCEP Director Franklin M. Orr, Jr. "This meeting will provide our researchers with an opportunity to reflect on their work and share their results. We are looking forward to a wide-ranging set of presentations by our Stanford and outside investigators, and posters from students and research staff supported by GCEP." The symposium's keynote speaker will be Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2004 and winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1997. For 17 years, Chu was a professor of physics and applied physics at Stanford, where he chaired the Physics Department from 1990 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2001. He has spoken widely to political and scientific leaders and the public about the need of applying emergent technologies to solve worldwide energy concerns. At the symposium, he will give a presentation titled, "The Energy Problem, Our Current Choices and Future Prospects." The symposium, titled "Developments in Fundamental Research Towards Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy Systems," is the second that GCEP will host. It will cover the following topics:
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Startup To Create Products Based Upon Technology From CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center
PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University today announced the launch of a new firm, Carnegie Robotics LLC, which will develop, manufacture and service robotic components and systems in partnership with the university's highly successful
National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC).
Carnegie Robotics will create products based upon technology licensed from the NREC, an arm of Carnegie Mellon's
Robotics Institute
that performs applied research and prototype development for industrial and government organizations.
John Bares
(right), director of the NREC since 1997, has taken a leave of absence from the university to lead the startup company.
Anthony Stentz
, who has served as associate director since 1997, will take over leadership of the NREC.
"NREC is a tremendous success story; it has experienced robust growth for more than a decade," said Mark S. Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon executive vice president and provost. "By turning NREC's innovations into commercial products, Carnegie Robotics will further strengthen NREC while expanding the robotics industry in western Pennsylvania."
Bares said Carnegie Robotics will initially concentrate on producing extremely reliable components that other manufacturers can use to automate machines used in such fields as mining, agriculture, petroleum production and defense. But as the company develops its own production expertise, plans call for manufacturing and servicing entire robotic systems. Both the company and NREC might also benefit from jointly marketing their services, he added.
"NREC has become the 'go to' organization for performing applied research and prototype development for field robots," Stentz said. "But now when we deliver a prototype, NREC customers increasingly want to know who can convert the prototype to a manufacturable product, as well as support and service the product over its lifetime. By addressing this production need, NREC will occupy a more competitive position and realize continued growth."
The company has leased space within the NREC facility, a renovated foundry in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh about three miles from the Carnegie Mellon campus.
"Carnegie is a storied industrial name, particularly here in western Pennsylvania," said
Matt Mason
, director of the Robotics Institute. "I know John and his team will work hard to build a company that lives up to the Carnegie name and that will help this region retain more of the talented roboticists and engineers who are trained here."
The NREC opened in 1996 as an operating unit within the Robotics Institute. The brainchild of
William "Red" Whittaker
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The NREC has developed a number of unmanned ground vehicles and autonomous systems for the Defense Department, ranging from a
virtual 3D video system
for enhanced teleoperation of vehicles to advanced large robotic vehicles, such as
and the
Autonomous Platform Demonstrator.
NREC researchers are developing
robots for sorting strawberry plants
and, in a U.S. Department of Agriculture project, applying robotic technology to the operation of
orange groves
. A commercially sustainable branch of the NREC develops
research-based K-12 educational content
used by millions of students in formal and informal educational settings across the world. The NREC continues to push into new markets and recently began work on
, an inspection robot for offshore petroleum production facilities.
Sponsored research at the NREC increased from $16.9 million in fiscal year 2005 to $24.8 million in fiscal year 2010; during the same five-year period, industry-sponsored research increased from $853,000 to $8.7 million. The center, which now employs 120 people, is in the process of expanding its Lawrenceville facility.
"As NREC director it was clear to me that for many mobile robot applications, the technology is now matured enough to sustain a robust products business," Bares said. "We believe NREC, Carnegie Robotics and western Pennsylvania are uniquely positioned to capitalize on this opportunity."
The Robotics Institute is part of Carnegie Mellon's
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Sarah Stringer shifted into trot mode as she rounded second base.
Missouri's sophomore second baseman had just hit the ball over the left center-field fence for what should have been her first collegiate home run.
Everything, even the dramatics, seemed in order for the feat, which came in the eighth inning of the Tigers' 5-4 win Sunday at University Field, completing a two-game sweep of No. 5 Texas A&M.
An inning earlier, Stringer had come to bat with her team trailing by two runs. Runners stood on first and second with no outs.
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"I've never really been a power hitter over the fence," Stringer said.
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Stringer's winner came the next inning on a 1-1 pitch that a fierce wind helped over the wall.
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The celebration was ongoing on the field as well. Missouri third baseman Kendra Power, who had reached on a walk, was so happy that she forgot to score.
Power got as far as third base, but then ran back to congratulate Stringer when she saw the ball go over the fence.
Power mobbed her teammate, hugging and jumping at the same time.
"We were both pretty excited and kind of let our emotions play," Stringer said.
Lucky for Missouri that lead runner Heather Kunkel had come around to score the winning run. Power was ruled out because she had interfered with Stringer's progress.
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DATE: | May 9, 2007 |
Members of the general public are welcome to attend a general meeting and special forum being hosted by the Newfoundland and Labrador Blood Disorders Education Network on Thursday, May 31, 2007, from 7-9 p.m. The meeting will take place in the main auditorium of the Health Sciences Centre.
The network is a project of the Hematology and Hemostasis Research Group at Memorial University. Its main goal is to raise awareness about disorders of the blood and the immune system in Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the impact these disorders have on patients, their families and the professionals and volunteers who work in this field.
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By Malin Rising; Hillel Italie
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United States is too insular and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing.
Counters the head of the U.S. National Book Foundation: "Put him in touch with me, and I'll send him a reading list."
As the Swedish Academy enters final deliberations for this year's award, permanent secretary Horace Engdahl said it is no coincidence that most winners are European.
"Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world … not the United States," he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
He said the 16-member award jury has not selected this year's winner, and dropped no hints about who was on the short list.
Speaking generally about American literature, he said U.S. writers are "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture ."
"The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature," Engdahl said. "That ignorance is restraining."
His comments were met with fierce reactions .
"You would think that the permanent secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically overlooked Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name just a few non-Nobelists, would spare us the categorical lectures," said David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker.
Said Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the foundation that administers the National Book Awards:
"Such a comment makes me think that Mr. Engdahl has read little of American literature outside the mainstream and has a very narrow view of what constitutes literature in this age," he said.
Since Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe won the award in 1994, the selections have had a distinct European flavor. Nine of the subsequent laureates were Europeans, including last year's winner, Doris Lessing of Britain. Of the other four, one was from Turkey and the others from South Africa, China and Trinidad. All had strong ties to Europe.
The Nobel Prize announcements start next week with the medicine award on Monday, followed by physics, chemistry, peace and economics. Next Thursday is a possible date for the literature prize, but the Swedish Academy by tradition only gives the date two days before.
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Whilst the clamp is slightly awkward to fit, if fitted correctly it is very secure. I have tried prying the clamp off when installed, and if there is any movement it is not poor design on the clamps behalf, but poor installation. I have used the clamp on different size wheels and have found no problem. I do use the clamp a lot and have found it quite easy to fit now, but reiterating my first point, initially a bit awkward… Read Full Review
Written on: 22/10/2010
My husband managed to fit it ok after some time of course. Very fiddly to put on. It has many parts to it and due to this we have lost the bolt so now it is useless. So if anyone has a broken one and would like to sell us the bolt please email firstname.lastname@example.com… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/08/2010
I bought this on the advice of the Hobby dealer who said it was the best and that they had sold many of them. I cannot fit it successfully and after several attempts can still shake it off or expose the wheel nuts. In addition it is very difficult to install and cumbersome . Wish I had stayed with the Bulldog I had on a previous van. Complete and utter waste of money. The rubber protectors to save the wheel paint split after 2 attempts at fitting.The dealer even admitted he had never tried to… Read Full Review
Written on: 18/06/2010
I bought my Nemesis clamp on line after reading the write-up in Towsures catalogue. I thought I was buying the top of the range clamp for my caravan. Last night the caravan was stolen. Looking at the clamp that was left behind, I can see how very easy it is to cut the steel holding the large pin in place. I would definitely not buy another one of these clamps, and would never recommend it to anyone else… Read Full Review
Written on: 21/02/2010
the welding on this product combined with the ease of fitting is so bad i broke mine when fitting it,over priced,over inflated hype.
mine was thrown in the bin,they are so poor even the bin man would not take it…
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Written on: 18/07/2008 by stevewarner0 (1 review written)
This is an expensive clamp that looks the part however the claims of it being easy to fit are inflated to say the least. It has been an expensive mistake and it will be on eBay shortly… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/12/2007 by billy1and2 (14 reviews written)
I removed this sold secure nemesis wheel clamp in less than 20 seconds using a pry bar. When my caravan was stolen, the only thing left was the Nemesis wheel clamp. I saw SOLD SECURE on the item so I assumed that it was a quality item. The item is made of mild steel and in my opinion has very poor quality welding on it. I paid over 100 for this lock that I now think is worthless. Looks great but did not do the job for me. If you have a caravan, I do not recommend this wheel clamp… Read Full Review
Written on: 31/05/2008
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In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, an institution revered, each game celebrated more lavishly than Christmas, each playoff distinguished more grandly than any national holiday. And with such recognition, comes powerful emotions. In 1971 high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the local school board was forced to integrate an all black school with an all white school, the very foundation of football's great tradition was put to the test.
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Valuing the Preseason
If you've read my work before, you'll know that I am a passionate advocate of statistical analysis. In its own way, reading about the roller-coaster ride that was Telfair's draft stock over the year leading up to his selection in the 2003 NBA Draft makes an argument for my position. Telfair's underlying ability never really changed over the course of his senior year, I don't believe, but his performance did, affected by his mood (late in the season, Telfair was dealing with the stress of decisions about an agent and a shoe company, as well as his brother's arrest), his health (Telfair sprained an ankle early in the year) and the caliber of his opposition.
Most of the general managers and other decision-makers charged with deciding whether to stake their team's future on Telfair saw him only a handful of times over the course of his senior campaign. Depending on when they saw him, their opinions could vary widely.
In this specific case, stats wouldn't have been much of a help - I can't imagine high-school stats ever being looked at as a meaningful indicator - but in general, the beauty of statistics is that they "see" every game, good or bad, producing a more fair and balanced look at a player.
At the same time, it goes almost without saying that stats can never substitute for regular observation. Part of the reason why I consider stats so valuable in the case of college scouting is that it's simply unfeasible to watch every game played by a prospect. Once a player joins a team, however, it's easy to get a complete picture of his skills. I only get to watch a half-hour of practice, tops, in my role covering the Sonics, but I still felt like I got a fairly complete picture of the games of the players invited by the team to training camp this season.
To me, a fascinating case study in observation and a dynamic opinion of a player is second-year Sonics swingman Damien Wilkins. After an unspectacular college career, the son of long-time NBA veteran Gerald Wilkins and nephew of All-Star Dominique Wilkins put himself in draft consideration with an outstanding performance at the Chicago Pre-Draft Camp, where he averaged 16.7 points per game. Despite that performance, I still wasn't sold on Wilkins' potential.
"In my book, those three games pale in importance compared to the 30 Wilkins played for Georgia last season, and he simply wasn't that good in them," I wrote in my draft preview.
NBA front offices apparently agreed with me, as Wilkins went undrafted. After playing for the Milwaukee Bucks in the Minnesota Timberwolves Summer League, Wilkins showed up in Seattle to play for the Sonics entry in the Rocky Mountain Revue Summer League. He quickly established himself as a good player for the makeshift squad and averaged a team-high 15.3 ppg in Utah.
At this point, having still only seen Wilkins play a couple of times in the practices leading up to summer league, I thought he was definitely worth a training-camp invite but no lock to make the team.
Wilkins was indeed invited to camp, where he played smooth, intelligent basketball at the offensive end of the court and held his own on defense. Two weeks into camp, I chatted with some friends at the Sonics' open practice, and I distinctly remember telling them that Wilkins was quote, "an NBA player," which is high praise for an invitee.
Wilkins rewarded my faith with 17-point preseason outings in two of the next three games and made the team. When injuries gave him a chance to play regularly in March, Wilkins showed the world what those of us who had seen him in practice already knew - he was capable of being an NBA regular.
To me, Wilkins shows where preseason results have a lot of value. Starting at the 2003 Draft, I had a fairly low opinion of Wilkins, but very little certainty about that opinion, considering how little I had seen him play. I quickly discarded that initial impression when more credible evidence to the contrary came along.
Another interesting example is Marquis Daniels. The SEC isn't high on my college radar, so, like Wilkins, I hadn't seen a lot of Daniels going into the draft. In his case, however, I liked his numbers, and called him a sleeper. Undrafted, Daniels played well in summer league and preseason, then did the same in limited minutes early in his rookie season. As a result, it was no surprise to me when he played well in a regular role late in the year.
To me, preseason statistics have no meaning in the case of established players. For example, Peja Stojakovic shot just 37.0% from the field and 31.0% from downtown in the preseason. Should Kings fans be worried? Of course not. Stojakovic is widely regarded as one of the best pure shooters in the NBA, and eight games of statistics don't tell us anything (it could be a different story if there was an apparent injury, or Stojakovic's form had fallen apart over the summer). In the case of Stojakovic, this seems obvious, but the same courtesy should also be given to established players who don't quite reach All-Star caliber.
At the team level, the value of the preseason is limited. I did a quick study to compare last year's preseason results with how teams fared in the regular season. Though there actually turned out to be predictive value at the top and bottom - Phoenix was one of two teams that won seven games, while Atlanta was the only one to lose seven - the overall value is limited. I calculated the correlation, which measures the strength of a relationship with 1 (or -1) indicating a perfect one-to-one relationship and zero meaning no relationship at all. The correlation between preseason wins and regular-season wins was only .273.
What's interesting is that my host, Roland Beech, did find some predictive value in the NFL preseason in a study for 82games' sister site, TwoMinuteWarning.com. In theory, I'd think the NBA preseason would be more meaningful, as it lasts twice as long and starters play a higher percentage of minutes. Perhaps the relatively fierce competition caused by non-guaranteed contracts accounts for this distinction.
At the same time, it's easy to see why preseason results are meaningless. Teams don't scout during the preseason; they're worried about what they are doing, not what their opponents are doing. Most teams run base offenses and defenses, not wanting to tip their hand as to the more esoteric strategies they'll employ in the regular season. And rotations aren't usually established until the end of the preseason, it at all.
Still, in the face of all this evidence, there still are many fans and members of the media who treat preseason results as important. (It should be noted as a counter-point that nobody seems to have changed their championship pick away from the Spurs after San Antonio's 2-7 presesaon.)
At no point in this column did I wish to imply I had all the answers - or even any of them - to the questions I've posed about the meaning of the preseason or the process of re-evaluating players and teams. But I do think this is an important discussion, one well worth having. I'm hoping it can be had at the new CourtsideTimes.net, a Web site that opened today and touts itself as "Basketball analysis beyond conventional wisdom." I urge you to give it a look.
Kevin Pelton formerly wrote the "Page 23" column for Hoopsworld.com. He provides original content for both SUPERSONICS.COM and storm.wnba.com, where you can find more of his analysis of both the NBA and the WNBA.
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Updated: 04/25/2013 7:52 PM KSTP.com By: Cassie Hart
An arrest has been made in an armed robbery at a McDonald's restaurant in Buffalo, according to police.
Officers were dispatched to the McDonald's at 303 7th Street Northeast at just before midnight on Wednesday for reports of an armed robbery.
Police say tips helped lead them to identify the suspect as 33-year-old Matthew Dylan Sisneros, of Delano.
He was arrest at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday by the Wright County Sheriff's Department
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Title: | Risk Minimization and the Traditional Ahupua'a in Kahikinui, Island of Maui, Hawai'i |
Author: | Dixon, Boyd; Conte, Patty J; Nagahara, Valerie; Hodgins, W Koa |
Date: | 1999 |
Publisher: | University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu) |
Citation: | Dixon, B., P. J. Conte, V. Nagahara, W. K. Hodgins. 1999. Risk Minimization and the Traditional Ahupua'a in Kahikinui, Island of Maui, Hawai'i. Asian Perspectives 38 (2): 229-55. |
Abstract: | Rather than viewing the culture history of Kahikinui, Maui, as a process of gradual population growth and ecological adaptation, this article proposes that the settlement and subsistence system found in the district at European contact was implemented virtually intact in the mid-fifteenth century as a deliberate and conscious chiefly strategy-both to avoid the social risks inherent in increasingly factionalized windward polities and to minimize the environmental risks involved in settling this dry leeward district. By approximately A.D. 1650, the spatial distribution of settlement and the formalization of agricultural field systems suggest the implementation of the ahupua 'a, or traditional Hawaiian community land unit. Kahikinui, located at the fringes of the pre-Contact sociopolitical structure, may have been among the first areas to suffer from the breakdown of the traditional ahupua'a system after European contact in A.D. 1778. KEYWORDS: Hawaiian archaeology, leeward environments, Maui, risk. |
Series/Report No.: | Volume 38 Number 2 |
ISSN: | 1535-8283 (E-ISSN) 0066-8435 (Print) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17128 |
Keywords: | Hawaiian archaeology, leeward environments, Maui, risk |
LC Subject Headings: | Prehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals. Prehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals. Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals. Oceania--Antiquities--Periodicals. East Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals. |
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WASHINGTON – Howard University's NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) has been awarded $2.625M for year one and up to $15 million over five years by the Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct research and educational efforts in weather, climate, air quality, and environmental literacy. NCAS, a consortium of six educational institutions led by Howard University, has been supported by core funding from the Department of Commerce since 2001. The other schools are Jackson State University, the University of Maryland College Park, the University of Texas El Paso, State University of New York Albany and the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. The Center has focused on research to improve weather, climate and air quality prediction through integrated observations, like the field campaigns to explore the long-range transport of African dust and its effects on hurricanes or the effects of biomass smoke and other pollutants on the air quality and health. At the Center's internationally recognized Beltsville Center for Climate System Observation in Beltsville, Md., NCAS seeks to improve the lead time and accuracy of severe weather forecasts, provide air quality prediction and support that helps the National Weather Service and others make better weather- and emergency-related decisions.
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Republicans not seeking to block HHS contraceptive mandate?
Catholic World News - July 30, 2012
Although Republican political leaders have denounced President Obama for imposing a contraceptive mandate as part of his health-care reform, the Republican leadership has not taken action to overturn the regulation, Politico notes.
House Speaker John Boehner said that the contraceptive mandate "must not stand and will not stand." But no vote to block the mandate has been scheduled in the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a majority.
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Justin. The candidates the NOT the same. Obama enthuses over abortion because he doesn't want his girls "punished with a baby." Saying when life begins is "above his pay grade." His healthKare rationing will make the elderly the new unwanted. Hey, adult children don't want to be punished with sick parents or grandparents. At their age, the old "should take a pain pill". The government won't waste healthcare dollars on them. God is watching all of this, Justin. Get your butt out to vote on Nov. 6
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It's no surprise to me at all, as it has become abundantly clear over the years that both Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same rusted and tarnished naturalist Enlightenment coin. Neither side believes in anything but "business as usual". I will not be voting, for what good is a democracy or the power of the vote if neither side believes in Truth?


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Television presenter Trisha Goddard has hit out at racism within the black press, in an interview in G2 today. Referring to an interview she gave to The Voice, published under the headline: "Why I've never dated black men", Goddard said: "I have never had so [much] twisting of what I said to fit somebody else's agenda." Steve Pope, editor of The Voice, denied any wrongdoing and accused the chat-show host of "nit picking". He said: "I am surprised she was annoyed. We weren't having a go at her, we were reflecting circumstances as to how she was brought up. I thought Trisha was being honest and open."
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Life History, Population Genetics and Sensory Biology of the White Spotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) with Emphasis on the Relative Importance of Olfaction
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Life History, Population Genetics and Sensory Biology of the White Spotted Eagle Ray Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790) with Emphasis on the Relative Importance of Olfaction
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The white spotted eagle ray, Aetobatus narinari is a graceful animal, which greatly contributes to the beauty of coral reefs and other marine environments around the world. Unfortunately, increases in fishing pressure, habitat destruction, urbanization, pollution and climate change have contributed to significant changes in its natural ecosystem, and are likely to negatively impact on the abundance and distribution of A. narinari today and in the future. Environmental agencies and scientists are struggling to protect global flora and fauna and even with the most relevant species information at hand adequate conservation measures are hard to develop and even harder to enforce. However, in the complete absence of any scientific information, this struggle is almost futile. This study was conducted to provide much needed information on several aspects of the biology of A. narinari.
Aetobatus narinari, has been listed as 'near threatened' globally and 'vulnerable' in Southeast Asia by the World Conservation Union Red List of Threatened Species since 2006. Prior to this study, information on life history, population genetics and sensory biology was sparse or deficient, but urgently needed for realistic stock evaluation, fisheries management, and ultimately for successful conservation. To assess age and growth, reproduction and diet, 119 individuals were collected on field trips in Australia and Taiwan and purchased from commercial fishermen. A. narinari was found to grow slowly (k=0.033), mature late, and produce few young, potentially rendering the species susceptible to overfishing. Females grew slower, matured later and attained larger sizes than males. Neonate disc width averaged 54 cm, while size at maturity was estimated around 130.0 cm for males and >150.0 cm for females. The diet of A. narinari consisted almost exclusively of gastropods, bivalves and malacostracans. Minor regional and no gender specific differences were observed related to feeding and few dietary shifts occurred throughout development.
Aetobatus narinari is known worldwide throughout temperate and tropical seas, displaying a variety of phenotypes, which suggests that this species may represent a species complex. Therefore, 154 genetic samples were collected from 18 populations worldwide to determine relatedness by comparing sequence polymorphisms at the sites of Cytochrome b and ND4. Two monophyletic lineages were distinguished between Indo-Pacific and Atlantic Ocean populations. There was also some evidence for a separate Western Indian lineage. Populations in the Western Pacific were highly structured, with 77% genetic variation found among populations. The degree of genetic structuring was unexpected for a large, semi-pelagic ray exhibiting high dispersal capabilities. Additionally, two genetically distinct populations were found within the Western Pacific, centred around Australia and Taiwan. A taxonomic revision is highly recommended; nonetheless, for management purposes, populations within the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, around Australia and Taiwan should be considered as independent 'management units', which are genetically distinct and may therefore vary in respective life histories. Protective measures need to suit each unit, e.g. with regard to marine park zoning, fishing quotas, catch restrictions of neonates or reproductively active segments and gear selectivity (especially if A. narinari is a common bycatch species in the area).
Olfaction is used in feeding, reproduction and predator avoidance. Since chemical signals can be detected by animals a considerable time after stimulus production and over large distances, olfaction may be of particular importance to a species such as A. narinari, which lives in the open water column, where medium or close range sensory cues may not be as crucial for survival. Therefore, A. narinari, one of the few bentho-pelagic batoids was compared to twenty benthic and bentho-pelagic shark and ray species. Four olfactory structures were used as morphological indicators of olfactory capability and compared between species and groups across a diversity of habitats and lifestyles. This enabled a comprehensive analysis of olfaction, based on both ecological and phylogenetic relationships. The study revealed that A.
narinari possesses a well-developed olfactory system and, based on morphology, it is likely to play a key role throughout development. It was also confirmed that bentho-pelagic sharks and rays possess significantly more olfactory lamellae and a larger sensory epithelial surface areas than benthic species. There was little evidence to support a correlation between phylogeny and morphology, indicating that differences in olfactory capability are the result of functional rather than evolutionary adaptations. Juveniles appeared to possess fully-developed olfactory organs and no structural differences were observed between differently-sized individuals within the same species. Across a number of elasmobranchs, olfactory organ size was positively correlated to body length and mass, although only few species, including A. narinari, showed proportional size scaling. Results indicate that while olfaction may be important to juveniles in general (subjected to heavy predation rates), in some species it may play an even more significant role in adults.
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